king sloions and  outcrops of dim rock, dark til the old man said:

    quot;Observatory up too crooked for sledge. You  go back, I  ;

    quot;Yea to go back  a spell. Ill be t;

    Lee Scoresby set off, er tucked into t of , and after iff climb found a clump of buildings suddenly above  been placed t  t o a momentary lifting of ter a minute it closed in again.  dome of tory, a smaller one a little ration buildings and domestic quarters. No lig permanently so as not to spoil telescopes.

    A fees after alking to a group of astronomers eager to learn ed as astronomers in a fog. old t everyt topic   Stanislaus Grumman tronomers  or in o talk.

    quot;Grumman? Yes, Ill tell you somet ; said tor. quot;e of ;

    quot;Surely not,quot; said y. quot; ;

    quot;No, I t language e, any;

    said tor.

    quot;But I agree, ainly a member of t—quot;

    quot;No, no, youre ; said someone else. quot; t not as a geologist. I alk .quot;

    tting, five of table in t served as tion room, and more or less everytes, one  ttle community o or, if only because roduced a cion. t to speak, and terrupted:

    quot; do you mean, a paleo-arc? Arcs already study  anot of it?quot;

    quot;udy  back muc, ts all. ions from ty, ty t; the Pole replied.

    quot;Nonsense!quot; said tor. quot;Utter nonsense! tions ty t;

    quot;Under t; said t;ts t. According to Grumman, tic field cically at various times in t, and tually moved, too, so t temperate areas becam